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Martin Kreidl
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Social demographer interested in family and inequality. Professor @soc-muni.bsky.social. UCLA sociology and @ccpratucla.bsky.social alumnus.
@ggp.bsky.social @ggp-cz.bsky.social country coordinator.

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Martin Kreidl @martinkreidl.bsky.social · Dec 11
Just published! "Research material" - a new survey module on first reproductive experiences (timing, outcomes, events). www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...
@ggp.bsky.social @ggp-cz.bsky.social @soc-muni.bsky.social
Demographic Research - First reproductive experience: A survey module (Volume 53 - Article 37 | Pages 1173–1206)
Volume 53 - Article 37 | Pages 1173–1206
www.demographic-research.org

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Martin Kreidl @martinkreidl.bsky.social · 8d
Generations and Gender Programme invites researchers to submit innovative, ready-to-field survey questions or short modules to be considered for inclusion in the Wave 3 GGS questionnaire.
Deadline - March 22, 2026.
The call details are here: www.ggp-i.org/engage/get-i... @ggp.bsky.social
GGS-II Wave 3 – Call for survey questions - Generations & Gender Programm...
www.ggp-i.org

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European Social Survey @ess-survey.bsky.social · 8d
You have until Monday 27 April to apply to field a module of #questions in Round 14 (2029/30) of our #survey.

Only one module will be selected via this #call, so applications should be limited to new modules based on topics that have not been covered in this way before.
Competition to field questions in the ESS | European Social Survey
A call for proposals to field a module of questions in Round 14 (2029/30) of the European Social Survey (ESS) is now open until Monday 27 April.
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GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften @gesis.org · 8d
#eurobarometer #eu #attitudes #europe
@ec.europa.eu
New: Special Eurobarometer 99.2. Includes the modules "Citizens’ attitudes towards corruption in the EU in 2023" and "Discrimination in the European Union".

http://dx.doi.org/10...

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Vienna Institute of Demography (VID) @demographyvienna.bsky.social · 20d
📢 Register now!
Francesco C. Billari (Rector of Bocconi University, Milan): "Demography and Hyperdiversity".
📅 23 February 2026, 17:00h
📍 Austrian Academy of Sciences, Festive Hall
🔗 www.oeaw.ac.at/en/detail/ev...
Demografie und Hyperdiversität
Francesco Billari nimmt bei einer Karl Popper-Lecture an der ÖAW die hyperdiverse Welt in den Blick und analysiert die komplexen Einflussfaktoren, die für die zunehmende Diversität von Bevölkerungen v...
www.oeaw.ac.at

Reposted by Stephen P. Jenkins, Sabine Pahl, Martin Kreidl

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UCL Social Research Institute @sriucl.bsky.social · 25d
The Centre for Time Use Research, UCL is hiring!

Find out more and apply now today: timeuse.org/home

Reposted by Philippe Dessus, Martin Kreidl, Michael Larkin

olivia.science
Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 25d
For all those involved in drafting so-called AI guidelines, but being overwhelmed with nonsense, this is a lifesaver. Great work by Dagmar and Ariel!

Resisting Enchantment and Determinism: How to critically engage with AI university guidelines. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
The list of most relevant themes we identified is: 1. Rhetoric of inevitability and technological determinism: presenting the adoption and use of (generative) AI as a fait accompli. 2. Exaggerated narratives: overstating the general capabilities of the technology, or leaving out that certain seemingly impressive capabilities can only be achieved under very specific experimental conditions. 3. Spurious comparison to human intelligence or Anthropomorphism: presenting AI as if it thinks or reason like a human. 4. Ethics and critical washing: presenting AI as being ethically or critically examined but doing so only superficially and inconsequentially. 5. Wishful thinking and uncertain feasibility: assuming desired outcomes or functionality despite lacking realistic evidence they can be achieved. 6. GenAI is presented as indispensable: portraying AI as essential even when simpler or non-AI solutions are sufficient. 7. Unrealistic and ill-defined conditions: formulating requirements for adoption and use that are functionally impossible or too demanding to be met, psychologically implausible to follow, or set unclear boundaries for acceptable and unacceptable behaviour, which could easily create inconsistencies. 8. Resources as propaganda: resources for students, faculty, and other stakeholders are made available but only for incentivizing different degrees of use of genAI. 9. AI Overkill: Substitution or replacement of tasks for which the technology was not designed; from tutoring to teaching to research, everything must be now with AI, even if it is not adequate. Due to space limitations, rather than discussing all of the themes superficially, this essay addresses only the first four, which, in our view, are the most critical and the most urgently in need of critical scrutiny. T

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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 26d
Please share: Pew Research Center will provide $3,000 each for 19 new papers using our recent global datasets. We encourage reuse of our Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures data!
https://www.pewresearch.org/2026/01/16/seeking-research-using-recent-pew-templeton-global-religious-futures-datasets/
To encourage reuse of our data, Pew Research Center, with support from the John Templeton Foundation, invites researchers to submit proposals for new research publications that use one or more of the following datasets (collectively, Datasets) from the Global Religious Futures (GRF) project: Global Restrictions on Religion 2007-2022 dataset. This cumulative dataset includes measures of government restrictions on religion and social hostilities involving religion in nearly 200 countries and territories. Spring 2024 Survey. This dataset includes measures of religion and spirituality in 35 countries. (Comparable data was also collected in 2023 and 2024 for the United States. The downloadable materials which accompany the international dataset include additional information about U.S. data.) Dataset of Global Religious Composition Estimates for 2010 and 2020. This dataset includes estimates of the size of seven major religious groups in more than 200 countries and territories. We encourag

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RC28 Social Stratification @isa-rc28.bsky.social · 27d
CRIS at the Sciences Po, Paris is seeking a post-doctoral researcher to join the Research Team led by Prof. Mirna Safi working on “The Discrimination-Inequality Cycle: Bridging Unequal Treatment and Unequal Outcomes across Countries, Regions and Workplaces” Apply:
www.sciencespo.fr/cris/files/J...
www.sciencespo.fr

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Niamh NicGhabhann Coleman @niamhroisin.bsky.social · 28d
Hello! I am sharing information about my @researchireland.ie project Locating Loss: histories of infertility in landscapes and spaces. I would love to connect with researchers/ practitioners from a wide range of backgrounds and disciplines, so please share widely! Sharing again for morning Bluesky!
Sheet of information on the locating loss project which aims to explore histories of infertility through landscapes and spaces. Please Dm me for more info if needed!

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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · Dec 20
Multidisciplinary training, over time, produces the highest impact people

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Recent discoveries on the acquisition of the highest levels of human performance
Scientists have long debated the origins of exceptional human achievements. This literature review summarizes recent evidence from multiple domains on the acquisition of world-class performance. We re...
www.science.org

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Generations & Gender Programme Czech Republic @ggp-cz.bsky.social · Dec 19
🎉 Congratulations to Adéla Pospíšilová on winning 2nd place in The Czech Demographic Society competition for the best Master’s thesis in Demography!
👨‍💻👩‍💻 Her thesis on couples meeting online and offline, based on GGS data, is available at: is.muni.cz/th/hleov/?la...
@soc-muni.bsky.social
Thesis/Dissertation: Bc. Adéla Pospíšilová: Perfectly Mismatched? Educational Assortative Mating in Online and Offline Dating: A Cross-National Perspective
is.muni.cz

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Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · Dec 19
This report in Nature on the costs of competing for & administering scientific grants is shocking: "In other words, European taxpayers will have spent more on the funding process than on the funding itself, and the scientific ecosystem has been drained." www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪
Point of no returns: researchers are crossing a threshold in the fight for funding
With so little money to go round, the costs of competing for grants can exceed what the grants are worth. When that happens, nobody wins.
www.nature.com

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readdemography.bsky.social
Demography - the flagship journal of PAA @readdemography.bsky.social · Dec 19
“Who Partners With Whom in Diverse Societies?”: @kasimirdederichs.bsky.social & @frankvantubergen.bsky.social use NL register data & find “Muslim groups maintain boundaries for union formation to other national origin groups." @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social @rug.nl read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

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Center for Advanced Internet Studies @cais-research.bsky.social · Dec 18
📅 Save the date: January 20, 2026!
Join us for our next CAISspecial!
The event explores opportunities and risks of AI in education, including automated feedback, mobile AI use, and privacy-aware approaches in real-world learning contexts.
Guests: Prof. Dr Andreas Breiter & Prof. Dr. Philipp Krieter
Graphic displaying the talk title “Trustworthy AI: From Data Collection to Organizational Embedding in Educational Settings,” along with the event details: January 20, 2026, from 4:00 to 6:00 PM, at CAIS and online.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · Dec 18
Maybe also useful: olivia.science/ai

Especially see our letter here: openletter.earth/open-letter-...

And: bsky.app/profile/oliv...

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Miles Klee 🦉 @milesklee.bsky.social · Dec 17
Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.
AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
www.rollingstone.com

Reposted by Klaus F. Zimmermann, Martin Kreidl

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Christian Zimmermann @czimm-economist.bsky.social · Dec 17
Google Scholar attributes papers automatically to authors, a problem with homonyms when they do not clean up their profiles. It is also generous in matching citations. #RePEc requires authors to claim their papers and has stricter criteria for citation matching, thus does not inflate stats.#EconSky
Google Scholar’s citation errors skew h-index leaderboards
Thousands of mistakenly awarded citations left uncorrected highlight the perils of leaving profile curation to academics, say critics
www.timeshighereducation.com

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ICPSR @icpsr.bsky.social · Dec 16
📈Data Alert!📈 ICPSR offers new and updated data to meet your research needs. Perfect for researchers, students, and data enthusiasts. Start exploring! Check it out ➡️ http://myumi.ch/ICPSR-new-releases

#NewReleases #DataUpdate #DataDriven
ICPSR logo and text: Recent Data Updates and Additions on a transparent background of blue wavy lines.

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Matteo Cesari @macesari.bsky.social · Dec 16
More than half of researchers now use #AI for peer review — often against guidance

@nature.com
#Science #Research #Technology

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
More than half of researchers now use AI for peer review — often against guidance
A survey of 1,600 academics found that more than 50% have used artificial-intelligence tools while peer reviewing manuscripts.
www.nature.com

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Matteo Cesari @macesari.bsky.social · Dec 16
Scientists skip key US meetings — and seize on smaller alternatives

@nature.com
#Science #Research #USA #Politics #Trump

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Scientists skip key US meetings — and seize on smaller alternatives
Researchers are devising creative ways to get together as Trump’s policies curb travel to US gatherings.
www.nature.com

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Sabrina Norwood @sabrinanorwood.bsky.social · Dec 16
Did you know that from tomorrow, Qualtrics is offering synthetic panels (AI-generated participants)?

Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"
Text reads: About synthetic panels Recruiting the right participants for a study can be difficult. You may not get the exact demographics you need, and the shorter the deadline, the less sure you can be that everyone will answer on time. One possible solution can be to use synthetic panels. Synthetic panels are powered by a first party proprietary AI model developed here at Qualtrics. Our synthetic panel is trained on thousands of responses from a variety of demographic backgrounds in order to more accurately predict how certain populations would respond to a survey. Our synthetic panel is based on the United States General Population, and is only available in English. This panel comes with ready-made quotas and target breakouts in order to represent your chosen population and make it easy to launch your survey right away. Text reads: Question-writing best practices To get the most reliable and actionable results from synthetic audiences, consider these question-writing best practices: Ask forward-looking and attitudinal questions. Synthetic panels perform best with perceptions, preferences, and intent-based questions. For example, “How likely are you to try…?” Synthetic panels are less applicable for studies on past behaviors, detailed recall, brand recall, or awareness questions. For example, “When did you last visit…?” Text reads: Discussion The current study aimed to conduct a meta-analysis of the TPB when applied to health behaviours which addressed the limitations of previous reviews by including only prospective tests of behaviour, applying RE meta-analytic procedures, correcting correlations for sampling and measurement error, and hierarchically analysing the effect of behaviour type and sample and methodological moderators. Some 237 tests were identified which examined relations amongst model components. Overall the analysis indicated that the TPB could explain 19.3% of the variance in behaviour and 44.3% of the variance in intention across studies. This level of prediction of behaviour is slightly lower than that of previous meta-analytic reviews which have found between 27% (Armitage & Conner, 2001; Hagger et al., 2002) and 36% (Trafimow et al., 2002) of the variance in behaviour to be explained by intention and PBC.

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UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies @clscohorts.bsky.social · Dec 16
📣 New webinar: Soon to be released data from the age 23 sweep of the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) will help answer questions about ‘Generation Z’ in early adulthood. Join us for a first look at the highlights of this valuable data and how to use it in your research.

🔗 Book now: buff.ly/pk33dq3
Banner advert showing two women in their 20s for Millennium Cohort Study at age 23 webinar taking place 12 February 2025.

Reposted by Martin Kreidl, Florian Keusch

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Joshua Claassen @jclaass.bsky.social · Dec 15
🚨 A recent @pnas.org article raised serious concerns about LLM-based manipulation of online surveys.

Good news: We’re not helpless. In a new #OpenAccess article with @jkhoehne.bsky.social #bwolf, we show that LLM-driven bots can be detected using simple prompt injections.

🌐 doi.org/10.1080/1364...

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GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften @gesis.org · Dec 15
#populationsurveys #longitudinalstudies
Out now: Gummer, von Glasenapp, Skora, Bartholomäus, and Naumann. "The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Design of Repeated Cross-sectional and Panel Surveys in Germany." International Journal of Public Opinion Research. doi: doi.org/10.1093/ijpo....
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CSS Lab, LMU Munich @css-lmu.bsky.social · Dec 12
🚀 We’re hiring a Postdoc!

Our group is looking for a Postdoc to join the team working on computational comm research. If you’re excited about automated content analysis, large text & social-media data, open science, this might be for you.

💡 Sounds like you or someone you know? Please share/boost!

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Martin Kreidl @martinkreidl.bsky.social · Dec 11
big thanks to co-authors!

@fertdem.bsky.social @shalinicantsing.bsky.social
@darinakmentova.bsky.social @sljitka.bsky.social @heinivaisanen.bsky.social Jasmin Passet-Wittig Anna Stastna Daniel Dvorak Barbara Hubatkova

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Heini Väisänen @heinivaisanen.bsky.social · Dec 11
📢New paper alert!

'First reproductive experience: A survey module' published @demresjournal.bsky.social with @fertdem.bsky.social & colleagues.

We recommend national surveys to collect more data on 1st repro experience (pregnancy or trying for pregnancy) to better understand reproductive dynamics
Demographic Research - First reproductive experience: A survey module (Volume 53 - Article 37 | Pages 1173–1206)
Volume 53 - Article 37 | Pages 1173–1206
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Demographic Research @demresjournal.bsky.social · Dec 11
New survey module captures people’s first reproductive experiences (timing, outcomes, events) to quantify reproductive difficulties and successes, calculate Time to Pregnancy in the general population, and link this experience to broader life course factors. @fertdem.bsky.social
bit.ly/4iR9ryH
Demographic Research - First reproductive experience: A survey module (Volume 53 - Article 37 | Pages 1173–1206)
Volume 53 - Article 37 | Pages 1173–1206
www.demographic-research.org

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Vienna Institute of Demography (VID) @demographyvienna.bsky.social · Dec 9
📢 Call for papers is now open!
We invite you to submit your contributions to the Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2027 special issue "Demographic perspectives on migration".
📆 Submit until 15 May 2026.
🔗 viennayearbook.org/call
#demography
@vypr.bsky.social